Submissions by olliec (Oliver Cocks)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
22nd Mar 2024 5:35am
22nd Mar 2024 5:35am
After the Banquet
Christmas Day
Post-prandial droop
Listening to Ed Sheeran
For whatever reason
Bloated and satisfied
Below, family and friends
While I sit upstairs
Good to rest
Good to unspool
Good to be
Post-prandial droop
Listening to Ed Sheeran
For whatever reason
Bloated and satisfied
Below, family and friends
While I sit upstairs
Good to rest
Good to unspool
Good to be
#love
#family
#holiday
#meditation
#PersonalGrowth
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
7th Mar 2024 4:45am
7th Mar 2024 4:45am
Reflection Diptych
Thunder and Rhythm
All connects to all,
everything builds
upon everything.
We’re all leaves
in an ageless storm.
We all seek beauty,
and we all link each to each.
Rain and Dew
There is beauty in the rain,
grandeur in the dew.
The things we lose and gain
are known by the wind.
The sea gathers our tears.
The stars witness our sighs.
All things contain the cosmos,
all skies are built of atoms.
So, treasure every slightest second,
cherish each...
All connects to all,
everything builds
upon everything.
We’re all leaves
in an ageless storm.
We all seek beauty,
and we all link each to each.
Rain and Dew
There is beauty in the rain,
grandeur in the dew.
The things we lose and gain
are known by the wind.
The sea gathers our tears.
The stars witness our sighs.
All things contain the cosmos,
all skies are built of atoms.
So, treasure every slightest second,
cherish each...
#love
#nature
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Mar 2024 5:34am
1st Mar 2024 5:34am
Yes, This Moment
A glorious evening, in which to gloriously
reflect upon the huge seas I’ve travelled.
A nice, ripe, wet evening, but
I’m inside, safe from ice-spitting winds.
A very nice, glorious evening, in which
I’ll scribble, still tipsy, elegies on napkins.
Or would,
if I was out and about to vomit.
But it’s nice here, where
I can just feel not uneasy,
and list all the miracles
that built this moment, yes, this one.
reflect upon the huge seas I’ve travelled.
A nice, ripe, wet evening, but
I’m inside, safe from ice-spitting winds.
A very nice, glorious evening, in which
I’ll scribble, still tipsy, elegies on napkins.
Or would,
if I was out and about to vomit.
But it’s nice here, where
I can just feel not uneasy,
and list all the miracles
that built this moment, yes, this one.
#sadness
#hope
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LOVE POEM
Published
29th Feb 2024 4:34am
29th Feb 2024 4:34am
All Now is Light and Air
At one point there was no such thing as love,
much like politics’ sensible centre.
But I still hear your voice
when trees sway in the wind.
Sweeter than an Oreo,
supple as a teenager’s imaginings.
We’ve lived through the deaths
that abound throughout life.
We’ve played Scrabble game
after Scrabble game, fingers interlocking.
I still see you finding those words,
and grinning, outlandishly proud.
I still recall our touch.
But now much has become blank
as the diary I...
much like politics’ sensible centre.
But I still hear your voice
when trees sway in the wind.
Sweeter than an Oreo,
supple as a teenager’s imaginings.
We’ve lived through the deaths
that abound throughout life.
We’ve played Scrabble game
after Scrabble game, fingers interlocking.
I still see you finding those words,
and grinning, outlandishly proud.
I still recall our touch.
But now much has become blank
as the diary I...
#sadness
#love
#dark
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LOVE POEM
Published
28th Feb 2024 7:12am
28th Feb 2024 7:12am
Amid Vanishing Darkness
Gyrating night cedes to a whimper, as
the stars flicker like dying lightbulbs.
The air bites cold- as do you.
But as the night sloughs into dawn,
bald wind is embroidered
with the velvet warble of birds,
and I forget you for once.
About time.
But then, as birds warble
amid vanishing darkness,
darkness dissolving
before dawn’s beams,
well, I’m back to remembering,
to honouring your perpetual shadow.
the stars flicker like dying lightbulbs.
The air bites cold- as do you.
But as the night sloughs into dawn,
bald wind is embroidered
with the velvet warble of birds,
and I forget you for once.
About time.
But then, as birds warble
amid vanishing darkness,
darkness dissolving
before dawn’s beams,
well, I’m back to remembering,
to honouring your perpetual shadow.
#sadness
#love
#dark
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LOVE POEM
Published
27th Feb 2024 12:55pm
27th Feb 2024 12:55pm
Pyre of Longing
Gobbling blaze
seethes and blackens,
and you think only of…
Who?
Who can be your heart’s home?
Time to bide this hour’s flames,
until you think of someone.
Someone to share
life’s fires with.
Until then, you’ll
just need to roast.
Roast in this fire,
that rages within.
But soon, soon, soon,
you will find that one,
that can quench all fires.
seethes and blackens,
and you think only of…
Who?
Who can be your heart’s home?
Time to bide this hour’s flames,
until you think of someone.
Someone to share
life’s fires with.
Until then, you’ll
just need to roast.
Roast in this fire,
that rages within.
But soon, soon, soon,
you will find that one,
that can quench all fires.
#sadness
#love
#depression #dark
#depression #dark
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DARK POEM
Published
27th Feb 2024 10:53am
27th Feb 2024 10:53am
Love at a Banquet
#sadness
#love
#depression
#dark
#LifeStruggles
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DARK POEM
Published
15th Feb 2024 5:44am
15th Feb 2024 5:44am
Desert Broom
I am nothing
and everything
is against me
yet here I am
I am a desert broom
brittle wilted
yet still here,
growing beneath a
volcano’s shadow
amid ash and rock
a surly survivor
Empires and houses
rise and crumble
around me, but
here I am, still
I dream of roses,
but know only thorns
I dream of the sky,
but know only storm
I dream of ending,
but am only forever
I am- I am…
and everything
is against me
yet here I am
I am a desert broom
brittle wilted
yet still here,
growing beneath a
volcano’s shadow
amid ash and rock
a surly survivor
Empires and houses
rise and crumble
around me, but
here I am, still
I dream of roses,
but know only thorns
I dream of the sky,
but know only storm
I dream of ending,
but am only forever
I am- I am…
#sadness
#depression
#dark
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LOVE POEM
Published
9th Feb 2024 6:09am
9th Feb 2024 6:09am
Who You Are
You are a finch upon a bough,
endowed with treacle-sounding song.
You are an ant upon a leaf,
humbly bearing your bounteous loot.
You are frog in a dank pond,
ready to transmogrify.
You are all these and more,
none of these and less,
nothing, everything,
everyone, no-one.
That’s who you are.
You are you,
nothing breathes beyond.
endowed with treacle-sounding song.
You are an ant upon a leaf,
humbly bearing your bounteous loot.
You are frog in a dank pond,
ready to transmogrify.
You are all these and more,
none of these and less,
nothing, everything,
everyone, no-one.
That’s who you are.
You are you,
nothing breathes beyond.
#love
#hope
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Feb 2024 10:59pm
3rd Feb 2024 10:59pm
Job Daze
It’s not the work
to make ends
meet that makes
you a Poet.
It’s what you make
that doesn’t pay,
never will,
probably won’t
even be read much.
Yet pennies must be made,
and making them
is a museless panegyric
to necessity.
Just as buying time for
rhyme and rhythm
is a consonant
clinking of coins.
to make ends
meet that makes
you a Poet.
It’s what you make
that doesn’t pay,
never will,
probably won’t
even be read much.
Yet pennies must be made,
and making them
is a museless panegyric
to necessity.
Just as buying time for
rhyme and rhythm
is a consonant
clinking of coins.
#LifeCycle
#job
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LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Feb 2024 6:44pm
3rd Feb 2024 6:44pm
Here You Are
A poem of fire and diamond
Just perfect for your
gold-gemmed brown eyes
Take it
Hold it
Let it sing, and singe
Just perfect for your
gold-gemmed brown eyes
Take it
Hold it
Let it sing, and singe
#love
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STORY POEM
Published
26th Jan 2024 8:28am
26th Jan 2024 8:28am
Jaime's Ballad
Jaime slammed on pop
Time to douse his ears
Together, together…. Together
They had been together
But over their beach holiday
just last week, they’d scrabbled
over who’d do the dishes,
pay for meals, walk the pooch
Two years, they’d been together
Most of all, they split
over Jaime’s aims to be a star
The star
The greatest voice of the zeitgeist
Jaime was mostly certain
that was what “zeitgeist” meant
They sliced in two over whether
Jaime should focus on work instead ...
Time to douse his ears
Together, together…. Together
They had been together
But over their beach holiday
just last week, they’d scrabbled
over who’d do the dishes,
pay for meals, walk the pooch
Two years, they’d been together
Most of all, they split
over Jaime’s aims to be a star
The star
The greatest voice of the zeitgeist
Jaime was mostly certain
that was what “zeitgeist” meant
They sliced in two over whether
Jaime should focus on work instead ...
#love
#politics
#LifeGoals
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